At 10:39 13.04.99 -0500, you wrote:
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>I'm trying to help a colleague identify the origin of a sonnet which prefaces
>several of the late 16th-century editions of Petrarch. It is typically titled
>"Sonetto sopra le sacre ceneri del Petrarcha e di M. Laura" and begins
"Laura,
>ch'un Sol fu tra le Donne in terra, ..."
Dear Christian,
In any case this is not the sonnet which was found in the grave and
pretends to be by Petrarch himself (Qui riposan quei caste e felice ossa).
An account of the 'discovery' is given by, for instance, V. L. Saulnier,
_Maurice Sce\ve_, Paris 1948, vol. 1, p.38-48 (notes vol. 2, p.27ss.), but
he does not mention your sonnet.
Yours,
Otfried
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